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Farid Karam

Lebanese scouting leader

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ27975305 ↗
Source-derived summary

Farid Karam (Arabic: فريد كرم) served as a member of the World Scout Committee.

In 1977, he was awarded the 119th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

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“Farid Karam” enters the record as lebanese scouting leader. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Farid, Karam and Lebanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Farid, Karam and Lebanese.
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This entry incorporates text from “Farid Karam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.